Evelyn Lau (born July 2, 1971) is a Canadianpoet and novelist. She was born in Vancouver to Chinese-Canadian parents. Her parents had high expectations of her, hoping she would become a doctor. Her family life was unhappy, however, as was her school life. In 1984, at age 14, she left home and began living on the streets of Vancouver as a prostitute and drug addict. Always wanting to be a writer she kept a diary which was published as Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid in 1989. The graphic book was a critical and commercial success. Her subsequent volumes of poetry and her first novel confirmed her as one of Canada's great young literary talents. She had a well publicized romance with the older writer W. P. Kinsella, a relationship that ended up with him suing her for libel. She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Evelyn Yee-Fun Lau was born in Vancouver on July 2, 1971 to Chinese immigrants.
Lau claims to have been conscious of her urge to become a writer since she was six.
Lau's prose and poetry have a "nowhere place" and "no direction home" feel about them that may derive from her uprooted and dysfunctional family background but which primarily signifiy a basic condition of the modern mind.
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